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This wiki is a compilation of teacher-created formative assessments. They have been minimally edited for consistent form, and to include optional uses as stated by the creators during our professional development sessions. Credit is given to the creators of each assessment, and links to their school web pages are provided, for further information.

My thanks to all who have contributed. Please visit often, as we continue to add formative assessments as they are developed by teachers, and will also be providing links to other online sources of formative assessments, as we find them.

Use the Table of Contents to search this Wiki for formative assessments. Also see "Search New Items" to review the most recent additions to the site, as we update regularly.

If you are interested in a particular formative assessment, please indicate so in the comments section, below. We will try to create or locate (or both) suitable assessments, and add them to the Wiki. Also, if you have created as assessment that you'd like to share, email the moderator and we will get your information for posting.

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  1. English
  2. author's craft
  3. bias
  4. cardinality
  5. character analysis
  6. counting
  7. early childhood
  8. elementary
  9. facetious language
  10. grade level
  11. high school
  12. index
  13. inference
  14. informational texts
  15. irony
  16. language arts
  17. literary devices
  18. mathematics
  19. middle grades
  20. multiple perspectives
  21. preschool
  22. primary
  23. reading
  24. sarcasm
  25. secondary
  26. supporting evidence
  27. updates
  28. upper elementary
  29. vocabulary


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As new assessments are added, they will be linked in the "New Items" section, for easy searching.



Editor's Note, 3/31 - For those of you creating your own Common Formative Assessments, here are some helpful resources that you can find right on the Connecticut State Department of Education Website:









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Other online sources of formative assessments will be added as they are discovered or suggested by members, and placed on this list, followed by the submission date. While we will try to test links regularly, it is not always possible -- let us know if any of the links are no longer "live."